A Grassroots Architecture to Supplant Global Digital Platforms by a Global Digital Democracy
Networking and Internet Architecture
2024-07-02 v5 Computers and Society
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multiagent Systems
Social and Information Networks
Abstract
We present an architectural alternative to global digital platforms termed grassroots, designed to serve the social, economic, civic, and political needs of local digital communities, as well as their federation. Grassroots platforms may offer local communities an alternative to global digital platforms while operating solely on the smartphones of their members, forsaking any global resources other than the network itself. Such communities may form digital economies without initial capital or external credit, exercise sovereign democratic governance, and federate, ultimately resulting in the grassroots formation of a global digital democracy.
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@article{arxiv.2404.13468,
title = {A Grassroots Architecture to Supplant Global Digital Platforms by a Global Digital Democracy},
author = {Ehud Shapiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13468},
year = {2024}
}